Overview

This is the second volume in a new paperback edition of Steve Nicholson’s well-reviewed four-volume analysis of British theatre censorship from 1900-1968, based on previously undocumented material in the Lord Chamberlain's Correspondence Archives in the British Library and the Royal Archives at Windsor. It covers the period from 1933 to 1952, and focuses on theatre censorship during the period before the outbreak of the Second World War, during the war itself, and in the immediate post-war period. The focus is primarily on political and moral censorship. The book documents and analyses the control exercised by the Lord Chamberlain. It also reviews the pressures exerted on him and on the theatre by the government, the monarch, the Church, foreign embassies and by influential public figures and organisations. This new edition includes a contextualising timeline for those readers who are unfamiliar with the period, and a new preface. DOI: https://doi.org/10.47788/SGLU9228

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Author:   Steve Nicholson
Publisher:   University of Exeter Press
Imprint:   University of Exeter Press
Edition:   Updated edition
ISBN:  

9781905816415

ISBN 10:   1905816413
Pages:   472
Publication Date:   21 September 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: 'The Most Dispensable of All the Fetters' Section One: 1933-1939 1  'Verboten': The Nazis Onstage 2  'Prudes on the Prowl': The Moral Gaze 3  'The Author Will Probably Deny It...': Naming the Homosexual 4  'These Communist Effusions': Testing Tolerance in Politics and Religion Section Two: 1939-1945 5  'Everybody Bombs Babies Now': Politics in Wartime 6  'Lubricating the War Machine': The Nude in Wartime 7  'Beastly Practices': Sexual Taboos in Wartime Section Three: 1945-1952 8  'Two Ways To Get Rid Of The Censor' 9  'This Infernal Business of Sex' 10  'But Perverts Must Go Somewhere in the Evening' 11  'The Crazy but Satisfactory Ethics of the English' Afterword: 'Congenial Work' Notes on Archive Referencing and Authors' Names Notes Select Bibliography Index

Reviews

Nicholson's volumes are unique in their objective and especially their richness of research material. As such, his Censorship of British Drama represents an unsurpassed source of reference for theatre historians. * Studies in Theatre and Performance * . . . should be welcomed as a long overdue account of the role and function of British theatre censorship during the twentieth century. * Modern Drama *

Author Information

Steve Nicholson is Emeritus Professor of 20th-Century and Contemporary Theatre, and Director of Drama, in the School of English at the University of Sheffield. He is a series editor for Exeter Performance Studies and the author of British Theatre and the Red Peril: The Portrayal of Communism, 1917-1945, also published by UEP.

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